Low Blogging Earnings

Thinking I could get put another spin on my current income stream I thought I setup a blog and monetize my traffic. So far I got 900 visits on my blog and earned something like 0.30$... This is solid US traffic. Is this normal?

Hmm yeah but I thought adsense would make something happen but... this seems like a low pay for adsense right? At first I couldn't think of any affiliate products but after your reply I gave it some serious thought and I've come up with something that I will be trying. It could be a winner as the banners actually add value for my users I think.

It's only 2 months old with 40 posts I'm building it around a forum that I frequent anyway. Maybe I should actually start targetting specific keywords with my posts to capture some search. I expected my traffic to take more linkbait but that has been pretty slow so far. I might have to improve quality (though it's good already)

Thinking I could get put another spin on my current income stream I thought I setup a blog and monetize my traffic. So far I got 900 visits on my blog and earned something like 0.30$... This is solid US traffic. Is this normal?

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Absolutely normal in case if your blog is filled with text articles written by copywriters. These are usually too boring and useless to prevent the surfers from closing the blog while it hasn't been yet loaded. This type of blogs has a very big bounce ratio, so sooner or later they all end up under Panda hammer.

It's only 2 months old with 40 posts I'm building it around a forum that I frequent anyway. Maybe I should actually start targetting specific keywords with my posts to capture some search. I expected my traffic to take more linkbait but that has been pretty slow so far. I might have to improve quality (though it's good already)

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Interesting point. I do see difference in user engagement between posts and definitely see a pattern that when I offer clearly valuable information to them they stick around longer. Do you have suggestions to keep them on my blog longer with "boring" copy.

PM me your niche... if it is a good fit, maybe we can work out a guest post on my PR2 blog that is receiving over 60,000 views per month. Perhaps it could drive some traffic back to your blog and will also give you a solid link for SERP

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Absolutely normal in case if your blog is filled with text articles written by copywriters. These are usually too boring and useless to prevent the surfers from closing the blog while it hasn't been yet loaded. This type of blogs has a very big bounce ratio, so sooner or later they all end up under Panda hammer.

Interesting point. I do see difference in user engagement between posts and definitely see a pattern that when I offer clearly valuable information to them they stick around longer. Do you have suggestions to keep them on my blog longer with "boring" copy.

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Depends on your niche. The most common way is to add some eye-catching media (e.g. related videos).

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